440 So. 2d 268 - Walters v. Inexco Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005 · most notably Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw (1988), 189 W. Va. 404 - Kincaid v. Mangum (1993)
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 104 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very losing litigant is given an automatic right of appeal”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“from being required to spend its time and energy and resources on appeals thoughtlessly taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When it appears to the Supreme Court of the United States, or to any circuit court of appeals of the United States, that there are involved in any proceedings before it questions or propositions of law of this state which are determinative of said cause independently of any other questions involved in said case and that there are no clear controlling precedents in the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, such federal court before rendering a decision may certify such questions or propositions of law of this state to the Supreme Court of Mississippi for rendition of a judgment or opinion concerning such questions or propositions of Mississippi law. This Court may, in its discretion, decline to answer the questions certified to it. (August 1, 1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.